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I have to agree about the bizarre Google corporate manifesto. It reminds me of stories I heard about "young pioneers" in the former soviet union. It's also strange that the founders buy a commercial jetliner with the proceeds of their stock sales when at about the same time in his career Bill Gates was still flying economy because first class didn't get him there any faster.

I was wondering if the MSFT/AOL negotiations were a game. There are plenty of Netscape alumni inside AOL, and I'm sure they would much prefer to work with the Googlers. I wonder how Ichan sees/views all of this.

For their part, MSFT have not put up much of a fight against GOOG, that's for sure.

wouldn't read too much into this, surely? Technical analyses always raise questions; that's what they're for. The difference between a minor technical issue that can easily be engineered around and a big, insurmountable problem is usually determined by whether your boss has decided he likes the deal in the first place. Or maybe I have just spent my entire working life at incredibly dysfunctional organisations (though in this case my experience would probably be more relevant to AOL rather than less).